Cottage Garden vs Minabo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cottage Garden
Compete in the art of gardening by filling flowerbeds with diverse plants, flowerpots, and garden cloches. Score completed beds and earn points to become the ultimate gardener. Enjoy a family-friendly, strategic experience with various play modes.
- Digital board game conversion
- Local and online multiplayer
- Cross-platform play
- Family-friendly theme
- Ranked and casual play
- Real-time and asynchronous games
- Interactive tutorial
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COTTAGE GARDEN - a colorful sea of flowers, framed by walls, paths, and hedges. As ambitious gardeners, you face the challenge of filling the beds in every corner of your garden with plants, inspired by the limitations of space to create ever new compositions. You will use a variety of plants — as well as flowerpots and garden cloches — to design gardens that bloom with diversity. Be kind to the helpful cats! Goal of the Game - In Cottage Garden, you compete in the art of gardening. Plant two Flowerbeds with different flowers. Score each Flowerbed when there are no more free spaces visible on it, then exchange it for a new, unplanted one. You receive points for all visible Flower Pots and Garden Cloches on the completed Flowerbed, and you may also receive Flower Pots and Cats that will help you with your gardening. The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner. Features • True digital conversion of Uwe Rosenbergs famous board game • 2-4 players locally, online or even cross-platform • Family friendly - non violent theme • Worldwide ranked multiplayer and casual play with your friends • fast real time games or asynchronous games with 24 hour time limit per turn • Easy interactive tutorial to learn the game from scratch • Analyze your best games or learn tricks from the best with Playback • 3 different computer opponents • uses the newest rules of the board game
Minabo
Experience a unique social simulation where you guide a turnip through life, building relationships, adopting pets, and starting a family. Every decision shapes your turnip's personality and destiny, with thousands of ways to live and learn from your choices.
- Social relationship simulation
- Character personality development
- Adopt radish-pets
- Start a family and breed
- Collectible hats with effects
- Life summary sharing
- Restart life to change past
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Minabo - A walk through life is a social simulation game where you walk the path of life while your turnip grows and thrives (or not) in its social relationships. Life starts when you sprout, time goes by with every step you take, and you can set your pace at any moment. You live and learn: surround yourself with other turnips and interact with them to forge your personality. Your acquired strengths and weaknesses will affect your future interactions. Build your social circle by maintaining and caring for the relationships that matter the most to you, and run away from the ones that don't. You can adopt many radish-pets and spend your life with them, start a family and breed little turnips or live fast and die young. There are thousands of ways to live and none is correct! Just live as you wish! (and assume the consequences of your decisions when you rot). Living and thriving in social relationships is not easy, so Minabo - A walk through life offers collectible hats that produce different effects when worn. Easily falling in love, making everyone hate you, getting an elegance plus or even changing your life expectancy... In Minabo - A walk through life, no two lives are the same and when they end, every one of them will generate a summary that you can share with your friends. What would you change from your past? What would life have been if you weren't rude to that one friend of your childhood? What if you spent more time with your family? Minabo - A walk through life will allow you to discover the answers if you decide to go back in time instead of starting a new life. Main features: - 25 quests with dozens of goals to make every life a challenge. - Free life mode: Each life and character is randomly generated. No two lives are the same! - Explore interpersonal relationships and build your social circle. Realistic relationships counselled by psychologists! - Surround yourself with other turnips and radish-pets! - Appealing visuals for all audiences, charming characters with hundreds of animations and seasonal backgrounds. - Share your life's summary with your friends. - Start a new life or change your past. You can restart any life to change whatever you'd like (or at least try)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Minabo at 4.0 against Cottage Garden's 3.1. Minabo also leads on price ($3.99 vs $4.99). Cottage Garden's advantage is review sentiment (38% vs 0%) and ratings volume (25 vs 2). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Cottage Garden costs $4.99 and Minabo $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Minabo holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cottage Garden has 25 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Cottage Garden's written reviews are positive against 0% of Minabo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Cottage Garden ships an update every 2 months, Minabo every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cottage Garden | Minabo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.1 (25 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 180 MB | 427 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIGIDICED | DevilishGames |
Customer experience
Cottage Garden
Minabo
In-app purchases
Cottage Garden
No in-app purchases
Minabo
No in-app purchases









